Is There Any Tool For Drawing A Gene/Protein Diagram?
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Daniel ▴ 50

Is there any tool for drawing a diagram of the "anatomy" or structure of protein/gene domains just like the figures normally shown in articles?

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Could you link to some example figures that illustrate what you want?

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If you are looking at 2D, schematic diagrams like the following figure: alt text You can use My Domains.

Similar schematic diagrams can be generated from protein structure (seee the following figure) data using DOMPLOT.

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If you are looking at 3D structure visualization of your gene/protein: Try one of the following tools:

  • PyMol: Educational use is free, limited options
  • Molscript / Raster3D: Very powerful visualization programs, command-line.
  • Jmol: Web based, Java applet
  • Several other tools are available here and here

See an example MolScript figure below:

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Nice list! Thanks for adding some color to the weekend

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Nice list, thanks for adding some color to my weekend

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Glad to note that :) !

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If you like coding, you could also give TiKZ a try: http://www.texample.net/tikz/examples/area/biology/

TiKZ has a steep learning curve, but once you get the hold of it, making nice illustrations become really fun.

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jeffk8900 ▴ 130

You can use the newly released lollipop tool from cBioPortal team. Just modify input to include header and gene name for protein of interest:

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The resultant protein diagram can be edited in SVG editor to remove extraneous graphical elements.

Tool can be founder here

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